The Psychology of Music, Third Edition

The aim of the psychology of music is to understand musical phenomena in terms of mental functions--to characterize the ways in which one perceives, remembers, creates, and performs music.

New to this Edition:

Completely revised to cover new developments including the opportunity to generate, analyze, and transform sound by computer, advances in neuroscience that influence thinking about the way music is processed in the brain, and increased collaboration between psychologists and musicians

Encompasses the way the brain perceives, remembers, creates, and performs musicContributions from the top international researchers in perception and cognition of musicDesigned for use as a textbook for advanced courses in psychology of music